The Naked Englishman

NE1389 Beach and Grammar

Back stomping over the beath with my Zoom recorder and talking about grammar.

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Sunshine and work

We haven’t had great weather this year, so when the sun comes out and the opportunity to sit in the garden to work arises, then I have to take advantage. The importance of getting Vitamin D from the suns rays cannot be over stated either. We spend too much time in doors looking at dreaded computers screens.
Yesterday, the sun was out all day and there was little or no wind and so I rigged up an old computer with flat screen monitor in the garden. It was better than the laptop for two reasons. Firstly, the laptop screen isn’t anywhere near...

Social History Books

I am reading loads of social history at the moment. I love it. I am fascinated by people and their lives, particularly in history. It is helping me with my writing work too as well as the Bald Explorer programmes. I think a broad understanding of where we have been and how we have developed is essential for a writer.

I am particularly curious about the poorer members of society. We all think we are hard done by at certain times in our lives, but on the whole this is nothing to the hardships that people in history have had to suffer. I do think it is important...

Facebook, Twitter and other digital blogs

I have made a decision. I have deleted and got rid of all posts on my Facebook account prior to 2013. The Bald Explorer page is fine, just the personal one. Not that I have uploaded anything I am ashamed at or want to hide particularly, but because I want to manage my digital life, not them.

Fortunately I have this blog where I shall put my digital information which people if they wish and using a search engine people can find it. I have started to be very wary about all the digital stuff out in the open. I always have and only post relevant stuff generally to my projects.

The right to be forgotten, or to remove my own content as and when I wish must remain with me. If I die, I want my children or next of kin to be able to access my accounts and access memories of me, if they wish to. Facebook locks you out. So, my digital...

The Joys and Perils of Writing a Children’s Book.

The book is going well, thanks for asking. I am have to say I am thoroughly enjoying the writing process. And thank God for the spell checker. The one thing that doesn’t seem to improve for me is getting the words written correctly on the page. Some of it is due to the lack of knowledge, which order the little letters ought to be in and the other is coordinating the fingers on the keyboard being too not speedily enough to fit the pace my brain wants to work at.

Although work is thin on the ground at the moment and the usual worries about where the next meal is coming from are continually uppermost in my mind, the time off has allowed me to get down to the creative process of hacking a children’s book together. I have a number of written projects I wish to complete, but the most commercial I think is my Splidge, the Cragflinger...

Getting Ready to Film

I am getting ready to go filming for another episode of the Bald Explorer and I talk about my children’s book I am writing too.